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The Salina Pumped Storage Project is a 260-megawatt (350,000 hp) pumped-storage power station near Salina, Oklahoma. It is owned and operated by the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA). Its construction was in response to growing power demands and a lack of dam sites on the Grand River. The first phase was completed in 1968 and the second in 1971.
This category contains articles about hydroelectric power plants in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Pages in category "Hydroelectric power plants in Oklahoma" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Oklahoma electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, sorted by type and name.In 2021, Oklahoma had a total summer capacity of 29,824 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 80,755 GWh. [2]
The upper reservoir of the Markersbach PSPS Dam of Siah Bishe Pumped Storage Power Plant The Tumut-3 Hydroelectric Power Station The upper Minamiaiki Dam of the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant Castaic Power Plant Main pump-generator hall of Vianden Pumped Storage Plant Upper reservoir for Coo-Trois-Ponts PSPS Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station Mingtan Dam
During periods of lower power demand, water is pumped from Lake Hudson to Lake Holway and released back down through the pump-generators during periods of high energy demand. [5] In the late 1970s, the Authority decided to build the GRDA Coal-fired Power Generation Complex, located near Chouteau, Oklahoma. Now more than four decades old, the ...
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This is a list of operational hydroelectric power stations in the United States with a current nameplate capacity of at least 100 MW.. The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936.
Because of limited state funding and a limited water supply on the Grand River, the project was not proposed at first for federal funding under the scope of hydroelectric power but instead for flood control. [6] Oklahoma set up the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) on January 10, 1935.